What in god's name is this pool minigame?

[Sekru]

So I reached the point in Saejima's story where you have the option of either winning a game of pool or paying 50k yen to this guy to progress the story and MY GOD, what on earth are these pool physics... I've tried this 8 times now and I can't bag a single time no matter how hard I try, despite being at least somewhat decent in pool in real life... The ball just bounces off at the completely nonsensical angles even when you should have a 100% guaranteed bag... Is there some trick to the pool in this game or should I just give up and pay the money instead?

[hammerstar]

That's what I did, but I came into it also knowing the pool game was BS because it's exactly the same in every Yakuza game.

In fact, I think the only time I actually put up with it was when I got to play pool with Majima in Kiwami.

[Robert F.]

Same with PS4, QLOC probably screw up the minigame tickrate above 30 fps and it's almost impossible to score with this wonky physics.

No matter where I aimed at (a straight line at the beginning or a angle), the cue ball always hits in the wrong angle, and I watch the AI literally destroyed me on easy difficulty.

Heck, I have no issue playing billiard on Y0 and Kiwami.

[hammerstar]

Well, I assumed the whole thing was BS in the series as a whole. By comparison, I had no issues with winning the pool game for Haruka's side job.

[Sekru]

Originally posted by Robert F.:

Same with PS4, QLOC probably screw up the minigame tickrate above 30 fps and it's almost impossible to score with this wonky physics.

No matter where I aimed at (a straight line at the beginning or a angle), the cue ball always hits in the wrong angle, and I watch the AI literally destroyed me on easy difficulty.

Heck, I have no issue playing billiard on Y0 and Kiwami.

Yup, I've played 0 and Kiwami and the physics were never this messed up in those games. I never bothered with pool in 3 and 4 so I can't say anything about them.

[MeatShake]

Originally posted by Robert F.:

Same with PS4, QLOC probably screw up the minigame tickrate above 30 fps and it's almost impossible to score with this wonky physics.

No matter where I aimed at (a straight line at the beginning or a angle), the cue ball always hits in the wrong angle, and I watch the AI literally destroyed me on easy difficulty.

Heck, I have no issue playing billiard on Y0 and Kiwami.

So toggle vsync for pool I'm guessing?

[Legato Bluesummers]

I wrote about the reason why in my guide, it has to do with the right stick affecting the trajectory.
You can use my fix, but you should really just use steam's own in built controller functionality or use a mouse. I link to the easy fix at the very top of my guide, so click that and read it.

tl;dr version is just shift+tab, click on controller config, click on right stick options, turn off horizontal movement.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2389354229

btw, this affects all 3 remastered games and it is present in the ps4 versions and unfortunately for them, they don't have a way to fix it outside of buying a new controller and being very careful. the tiniest amount of drift will mess up your shot.

[Future Pirate King]

The only reason I got through it was because the AI pocketed the 8 ball on his first try. It was annoying before that redoing it over and over again.